Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 2 | Stewart McGrane scored the first seven minutes after the break with the second not arriving until five minutes from the end , which says a lot for the Galashiels defence . |
| 3 | AI urges King Jigme to release the last remaining known prisoner of conscience , Tek Nath Rizal , who is starting a third year in detention without trial at Wangdi Phodrang Prison . |
| 4 | Pat Nevin scored the third five minutes from time . |
| 5 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 6 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 7 | WORLD No 1 Dennis Priestley reached the last 64 of the British Open darts last night but former world champions Bob Anderson and Keith Deller both lost in the third round . |
| 8 | Terry , Steve Hallard and Richard Priestman reached the last 16 of the men 's team event by beating Germany 233-231 , Australia in the quarters by 240-236 , before falling to Spain 234-236 . |
| 9 | Victory arrived in a flourish when Richard Hignett deposited the last four balls of the 42nd over from Furse for 6 , 2 , 4 and 6 . |
| 10 | Jose Rivero birdied the last three holes to trim America 's lead to two shots and join Couples out in front in the individual race , won by Woosnam last year . |
| 11 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 12 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 13 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 14 | Dr Broadhurst organised the first public meeting in St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 15 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 16 | A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed the Amsterdam-born Dr Stern to spend the last six years cataloguing the museum 's ancient glass collection . |
| 17 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 18 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 19 | Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed the next flat piece onto the front of the shelter . |
| 20 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 21 | Mr Doubleday imported the first Russian comfrey into Britain , a plant known for its medicinal qualities . |
| 22 | Jim Makin , Bill Mellor , Michael Hardman and Graham Lees celebrate the first 10 years . |
| 23 | During his visit , Mr Kinnock became the first British political leader to meet Gregor Gysi , the new East German Communist Party leader . |
| 24 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 25 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 26 | President Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli head of state to visit Czechoslovakia on Oct. 13-20 . |
| 27 | On July 15-17 Chaim Herzog became the first Israeli President to visit Turkey . |
| 28 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 29 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 30 | Only a late-order rally through the efforts of Godfrey Furse and skipper Graham Watts helped the last three wickets add 41 runs . |